And what I've added below. Once again, Kindle App keeps it simple. One tap on the font size adjuster in the menu bar, and you get one (additional) tap access to font changes, font-size changes, screen brightness changes, and all three themes available in iBooks. Why iBooks has a giant themes bar when they could easily replace it with buttons for the only three themes they offer makes no sense.

I thought Apple were the guys who were supposed to be masters of common-sense UI design?

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And what I've added below. Once again, Kindle App keeps it simple. One tap on the font size adjuster in the menu bar, and you get one (additional) tap access to font changes, font-size changes, screen brightness changes, and all three themes available in iBooks. Why iBooks has a giant themes bar when they could easily replace it with buttons for the only three themes they offer makes no sense.

I thought Apple were the guys who were supposed to be masters of common-sense UI design?

P.S. While I'm sure continuous scroll will be welcomed by some, it also seems a ridiculously tiresome way to read a long book to me. Page turns just require so much less effort; and it is nearly impossible to lose your place as it can be when you scroll some random amount and and now don't know how high on the page your eyes should be.

Web pages scroll; because they load faster that way, and make layout simpler because every user's browser window is different in both width and height; but they usually don't span more than a few page heights in length. When they do, then good site UI design dictates the author break the content into multiple pages. I can't even imagine scrolling through a book with hundreds or thousands of pages ad infinitum, without even a scroll wheel to make the job easier.

Why would this even be needed on devices with screens of so high a resolution that you can fit so much text on one page you don't need to even turn the page any more often (or even as often as) you do with a real book? Perhaps if your device only showed a few lines at a time; but this I just don't see an attraction to.

Does the new feature at least have some sort of auto-scroll mechanism? Adjustable to your reading speed and with the easy ability to pause?

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P.S. While I'm sure continuous scroll will be welcomed by some, it also seems a ridiculously tiresome way to read a long book to me. Page turns just require so much less effort; and it is nearly impossible to lose your place as it can be when you scroll some random amount and and now don't know how high on the page your eyes should be.

Web pages scroll; because they load faster that way, and make layout simpler because every user's browser window is different in both width and height; but they usually don't span more than a few page heights in length. When they do, then good site UI design dictates the author break the content into multiple pages. I can't even imagine scrolling through a book with hundreds or thousands of pages ad infinitum, without even a scroll wheel to make the job easier.

Why would this even be needed on devices with screens of so high a resolution that you can fit so much text on one page you don't need to even turn the page any more often (or even as often as) you do with a real book? Perhaps if your device only showed a few lines at a time; but this I just don't see an attraction to.

Does the new feature at least have some sort of auto-scroll mechanism? Adjustable to your reading speed and with the easy ability to pause?

Is it me, or did looking up words in the dictionary and highlighting text become more difficult along the way?

On the Kindle App, I just have to tap a word and the definition comes up immediately; as well as the options to highlight it, note it, share it, or look it up on google or wikipedia -- all just one more tap away.

On iBooks, one tap gets me NO definition -- just the option to tap again for the definition, or to copy, or to highlight it. Just to search a term on wikipedia, I have to tap the word and then tap THREE MORE times with all the menus and sub-menus. Why??

Plus highlighting is so much easier on the Kindle App -- if you are highlighting more than one word (as you usually are), just tap and drag your selection. Instant highlight! No tapping, selecting highlight, and then having to drag both the start and end selectors to the proper places. iBooks is just so damn tedious. Thank goodness for Calibre.

If any of these features are improved upon in the new iBooks, please let us know.

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Is it me, or did looking up words in the dictionary and highlighting text become more difficult along the way?

On the Kindle App, I just have to tap a word and the definition comes up immediately; as well as the options to highlight it, note it, share it, or look it up on google or wikipedia -- all just one more tap away.

On iBooks, one tap gets me NO definition -- just the option to tap again for the definition, or to copy, or to highlight it. Just to search a term on wikipedia, I have to tap the word and then tap THREE MORE times with all the menus and sub-menus. Why??

Plus highlighting is so much easier on the Kindle App -- if you are highlighting more than one word (as you usually are), just tap and drag your selection. Instant highlight! No tapping, selecting highlight, and then having to drag both the start and end selectors to the proper places. iBooks is just so damn tedious. Thank goodness for Calibre.

If any of these features are improved upon in the new iBooks, please let us know.